Thursday, November 10, 2016

Questioning The Village: November 10, 2016

Focus: What Gothic elements does The Village use, and to what purpose?

Reminder: I'm grading your Gothic journals; if you have anything you need to hand in, now is the time.

[If you were absent yesterday: Setting up our close reading of The Village
  • Click HERE for the viewing guide.
  • Make a copy and save it in your Gothic lit folder.
  • This will turn into your Gothic unit assessment; please use the viewing guide thoughtfully and thoroughly.]
1. Responding to yesterday's blog questions with either possible answers or follow-up questions; brainstorming possible symbols

2. Watching The Village with a critical eye

3. Wrapping up with responses to today's focus question

HW:
1. Make sure your Gothic journals are shared with me; if you handwrote, take a photo and put it in Google doc in your Gothic Lit folder (you should have 4 entries, one of which has been graded).

2. Tomorrow is the deadline to revise/redo any assignments from the past six weeks. This includes cultural hysteria essays, missed fishbowls, ELIC journals, Gothic journals, grammar fixes, and anything else in IC that doesn't accurately reflect your learning. 

All revisions/redos/make-up work due this Friday, November 11.

Reminders:
(1) If you're revising your cultural hysteria essay, you must conference with me before Friday.
(2) If you add to a journal or any other assignment, please e-mail me.


3. Decide on your speech topic and enter it on the sign-up sheet by this Friday, Nov 11. Don't worry if it's not too specific yet; look to your index cards, and work with one of the ideas you put on top when you ranked them in terms of personal interest.

4th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.
6th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.

Sample topics: 
  • Increasing diversity in schools
  • Being an athlete on the inside (even if you're never going  to win any medals)
  • Failing your way to success

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  3. Was Noah trying to kill Ivy?

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  5. I think they are using fear to control the people by keeping them inside the village.

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  6. Everybody in the village repressed their hardships by making themselves an ideal society.

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  7. I realized that the color red depicts a sense of evil.

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  8. Does the blood on Noah's hand signify something about Noah?

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  9. Nothing is very scary about people living Amish/in the olden days, until you realize people are being lied to and scared into submission

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  10. They sent Ivy because she will not be able to (directly) see the modern city.

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  11. I think that her being blind helps her stay more calm.

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  12. The red berries from the forest are the same as the berries Noah gave to the main character.

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  13. The adults in the village were dressed as monsters to scare the people.

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  14. I think the black box is the same as the one in the lottery. It holds something no one wants to acknowledge.

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  15. I think that the color red and the beasts color represent that we all have little beast inside of us because of our blood

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  16. I think they left the towns because they were scared because of what happened to their families.

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  17. The elders are scaring the people into staying in the town.

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  18. I didn't know for sure that yellow was the 'safe' color. Was Noah trying to kill Ivy?

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  19. I realized that the monsters weren't actually monsters, they were just the elders of the town dressing up.

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  20. I realized that the creature, as far as we know, is something people of the village made up for whatever reason

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  21. The elders dressed as the monsters to keep their weird outcast town together, but it ended up backfiring

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  22. I underStand that how he people are trying to keep he legacy going throughout the town

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  23. I realized that the color red kind of plays a big role, might revel evil

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  24. The monsters are fake

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  25. the people in the village created the idea of those who we dont speak of, they arent real.

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  26. What were the elders trying to hide the people of the village from?

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  27. Now I understand why the creatures were created

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  28. That the people in the village know who and what the people in red in the forest are.

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  29. I think that her not being able to see shows the idea of the unknown

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